On Aug. 16, the Houston Chronicle will hold a discussion with two Texas authors about their books. One is Chronicle business columnist Chris Tomlinson, who wrote a book in 2014 called Tomlinson Hill, which tells the story of the former slave plantation Tomlinson’s ancestors owned in Central Texas and what has become of it today.

We revisit Michael Hagerty’s 2014 conversation with Chris Tomlinson about what he learned in his research and about the powerful experience of connecting descendants of slave owners with the descendants of slaves.